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Is the Kaiser's God the 
Christian's Devil? 



BY 

GEORGE JAMES JONES 

Ph. D., D. D., LL. b. 

Author of ''The Lighted Lamp," ''The Province of Phil- 
osophy," "The American Church" "The 
Fall of the Ax,'' etc. 



UTICA. NEW YORK 

PRESS OF THOMAS J. GRIFFITHS 

1918 






COPYRIGHTED 
1918 

5iAH 22 m 



JUL 12 lyib 



ST 

WINNIE, 

AND MY THREE DA UGHTERS, 

MARIETTA, 

ELIZABETH, 

MARTHA, 

I HAN IVHOM NO MORE LOYAL 

AMERICANS LIVE, 

THIS BOOKLET 

IS A FFEC TION A TEL Y S UBSCR I BED 

BY THE AUTHOR 



CONTENTS 



Page 

Introduction 7 

I Chapter: A Bold Attempt ... 9 

II Chapter: Only Seek Their Own . 14 

III Inhuman Heritage 16 

IV The Conquest of The World . . 21 
V A Degenerate People .... 25 

VI Two Kinds of Them 28 

VII German Thought Today ... 31 

VIII What is Civilization? . . . . 3^ 

IX Two Greatest Facts 3^ 

X Opposing Principles 41 

XI The Saloon 45 

XII The Larger Life 5^ 



INTRODUCTION 



The contents of the following pages were de- 
livered before members of the Graduating Class of 
the High School at New Waterford, Ohio, on May 
26. 1918, except that many paragraphs w^ere left 
unsaid for the want of time. Several people who 
heard the address and several people who heard 
about the address expressed the desire to have it 
in print. It is now presented in this form without 
change from the original. The author has no 
apology to make, but he does offer a prayer that 
the printing of it may do a deal of good, and help to 
bring all its readers into a closer touch with the 
King of Righteousness. 

G. J. J. 
Oak Hill, Ohio, June, 1918. 



IS THE KAISER'S GOD THE CHRISTIAN'S 
DEVIL? 



I shall present few facts in simple language, and 
the reader will be able to answer the question 
asked to his own satisfaction. 



I. A BOLD ATTEMPT 

The fiercest war ever known is raging. Four 
nations have taken up weapons of destruction 
against the rest of the world, and twenty-three 
governments have accepted the challenge. To put 
it in the lofty diction of the President of the United 
States, "these 23 governments represent the greater 
part of the population of the world drawn together 
into a new sense of community of purpose, a new 
sense of the unity of life." The 23 governments 
also represent fully four-fifth of the intelligence of 
the world, its moral consciousness and its working 
energy. The biggest part of the world has been 
forced to take up weapons of war in its own defense, 
as the sole purpose of the four nations is to conquer 



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the world by any and every means. The biggest 
part of the world did not look for war, did not pre- 
pare for war, did not expect anything of the sort 
to take place in this advanced age, and was prepar- 
ing to make treaties of universal peace. Many 
people in thought w^ere already on the mountain 
top enjoying the ecstacy of universal peace, and 
were moved to anger at the mention of a possible 
war. Just four weeks before the war broke forth 
in all its fury in Belgium, I received a little pam- 
phlet describing the folly of men who saw signs of 
war. In that pamphlet the question was asked, 
"Who wants to go to war with us?" The Kaiser 
made reply. The four nations, at least Germany, 
had been preparing for w^ar during the past fifty 
years, and was actually looking for something to 
turn up that might give her some logical excuse for 
putting her mighty engine of destruction to work. 
The other three nations may not have been fully 
in the confidence of Germany ; they may not have 
learned all the details of her plans, for Germany is 
not known to have ever dealt frankly and openly 
with any people. After the war is over, if these 
three nations will have not lost themselves in the 
German Imperial Government, they may give to 
the world many explanations which now they dare 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 1 1 

not give.' Their own existence depends not on the 
honor of Germany, but on the fair play spirit of 
the governments who oppose Germany and them- 
selves. Should Germany carry out her plan to con- 
quer the world these three nations would be in- 
cluded. I take it that these three nations were 
hoodwinked at the start. Whatever may be denied 
to Germany, ruthless cunning is not it. Germany 
had been slyly preparing for conquest, and it hoped 
that by making one great overwhelming onslaught 
to bring the world to her feet. Her allies were be- 
guiled. By one pretense or another they were led 
till they got too far to retract. The first success 
of Germany was in throwing around her allies a 
band which they could not shatter did they desire 
to do so. It was so firmly fastened that to unfasten 
was impossible. It seems that Germany had count- 
ed on a greater number of nations to be hoodwink- 
ed than proved to be the case. Her attempt is seen 
in Greece, in Japan, in Ireland, in Canada, in 
Mexico, etc., and in this country ; she thought that 
by treachery she could win at least some sympathy 
in these nations, and if not, then have ready a num- 
ber of men who would involve those nations in a 
revolution. Had our President been less prudent 
and had entered war with Mexico the vortex of 



12 Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 

the pres nt conflict would have been in that coun- 
try and the Kaiser would have landed his troops 
there, and from that point seek his victory. It was 
a great surprise to the Kaiser that Britain en- 
tered the war. He did not dream of such a thing". 
Probably he had reasoned that because of near 
blood relations of Germany and Britain, and the vic- 
tory of the American Colonies over Britain that 
Britain would surely side with him. He made a 
mistake as to the moral make up of the population 
of Great Britain. At no time were they wholly 
German, and the German conquest of Britain was 
obtained by methods as treacherous and inhuman 
as those employed now, and the people have not 
forgotten. And with higher civilization the German 
blood has become thin or run out in that country. 
The Teutonic element is a minor factor in that na- 
tion. We are told that to-day the Celtic blood form 
60 per cent, of that nation, and that the other 40 
per cent, is made up of German and all other na- 
tionalities. The Kaiser informed the Hon. James 
W. Gerard that he had many thousands of loyal 
subjects in the United States and Mr. Gerard re- 
plied that there were fully as many lamp posts in 
the United States on which they would hang, should 
they prove disloyal to our Government. The awful 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 13 

time we have had with them needs no repetition. 
Evidently the Kaiser expected his loyal subjects in 
the United States to manifest such power as to 
paralyze our Government and turn everything to 
his advantage. The Kaiser said that he would 
stand "no fooling from Wilson" and without re- 
sorting to such coarse language Wilson stood no 
fooling from the Kaiser. Germany has no moral 
insight. She is absolutely blind to the higher 
things. All she sees, admires and covets is wealth 
and power. The higher graces which make life 
w^orth while are not understood and appreciated by 
her. She had investigated many things in this 
country, w^hich will be mentioned later on, but she 
had not looked into the higher life of the people of 
this country, the moral facts which swayed their 
life, the inner principles which are dearer to them 
than all else. She has no mathematics for moral 
problems. While the United States can discount 
her more than two to one in material increase, those 
things are not all the life of America. For the peo- 
ple of this country, liberty and the pursuit of 
happiness are w^orth more than all the mate- 
rial wealth of the w^orld, and for these she will con- 
vert every dollar, gold mine and silver. Germany 
did not know the moral make up of the people of 



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the United States. One great achievement Ger- 
many desired, supplementary of course to the con> 
quest of the American continent, was the overthrow 
of what is know^n as the "Monroe Doctrine," the 
doctrine that no foreign power is permitted to en- 
ter this continent and to hold one foot of land in it 
for one minute. The Kaiser made that attempt 
when Mr. Theodore Roosevelt was President, and 
his attempt was quickly and flatly frustrated. 
Could Germany by any means get a foothold in this 
or in any other country she would not be long be- 
fore she would attempt to get it all. Her purpose 
is to Germanize the world, rather Prussianize the 
world. That is her history. Her real purpose was 
not seen by all the world till now. 



n. ONLY SEEK THEIR OWN 

The 23 nations referred to as if by the finger 
touch of the Almighty, one after the other, entered 
the conflict. Not one iota of evidence can be pro- 
duced that either of them entered from a desire 
that is not laudable and lofty, and that they seek 
by entering the war nothing that by right does not 
belong to them ; self-preservation, the free and un- 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 1 5 

molested use of the seas, the opportunity to develop 
the resources of their own land, the cultivation of 
their own fields, the development of themselves 
and their children in education, in morals and in 
religion. The breaking forth of the war in the 
manner it did break forth resulted in the awakening 
of the majority of the population of the globe, not 
more awakened to their danger than to their op- 
portunity — their opportunity to make war against 
war, to make war to end war, to make war to end 
the cause of war by making an end of Germany. 
On one side in the conflict are four nations vmited, 
or three nations subdued and forced to sacrifice 
themselves to the greed of Germany to make her 
now the mistress of the world, and if not now, to 
put her in position to become mistress of the 
world in the next war. The 23 governments have 
concluded to put an end to it now. Each one of the 
23 governments is vastly more human and progres- 
sive than Germany is ; they rush to the colors as 
speedily as possible, and at whatever cost to 
rescue the world from so cruel a tyranny, from the 
dominion of a people who are insanely cruel and 
devilish. The longer that nation is allowed to con- 
tinue in her present immoral state the more she 
becomes a menace to the world. She can be and 



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will be conquered now. When that is a complete 
fact the greatest obstacle to the world's progress 
will have been forever removed. The world, or 
the greatest part of it, is fully awakened to the 
situation. No sacrifice is regarded as too great to 
make if thereby the Kaiser and his cohorts shall 
be put in such environments and relations that 
never again they shall be able to bring such 
calamity on an innocent public. 



III. INHUMAN HERITAGE 

When I say Germans, I do not mean all the peo- 
ple who go under that name in all parts of the 
world, for I know that some of them are absolutely 
and loyally true, but I do mean the Kaiser and his 
co-conspirators ; these are Prussians or Prussian- 
ized Germans. The Prussian rulers are directly 
responsible for the war, and responsible for much 
other evil in the world to-day. *'The Teuton 
Knights who conquered the Slav population of 
Prussia have bound that population to their will" — 
Hon. J. W. Gerard. The father of Frederick the 
Great created the Prussian army for plunder and 
conquest. During many centuries the Prussians 



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have been the terror of central Europe. The people 
at all times are held in fear by them. After the 
Thirty Years War which terminated in 1648, Ger- 
many was almost a desert. The population fell 
from twenty millions of people to four millions ; 
the people were so starved that cannibalism was 
openly practiced, and polygamy legalized ; they now 
purpose to increase their man power by introducing 
polygamy, and to compel marriage before 21, and 
to punish if no children follow. Of the thirty-five 
thousand Bohemian villages only six thousand 
remained after that war. The sacrifice of man 
power is only so many items of war lost. The value 
of the individual is estimated according to his mili- 
tary possibility. Grimmelshausen in his novel, "The 
Adventures of Simplissisimus," in describing con- 
ditions in his days says : "While I still lived in 
Europe, everything was filled with war; burning, 
murder, robbery, plundering- and the shame of 
women and virgins." See "Four Years in Germany," 
by J. W. Gerard. What they have been doing 
through the centuries they are doing now. The 
leopard has not changed his spots. "And the beast 
which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet 
were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the 
mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave him his power, 



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and his seat and his great authority" (Rev. 13:2). 
John had a pretty clear and definite vision of him. 
The indescribable cruel practices of the Prussians 
of to-day are hereditary instincts, which they now 
call "Kultur." The Cimbri and Teutons — the tribes 
defeated by Marius ; Aristovistus, who was defeat- 
ed by Julius Ceasar ; the Goths and the Visi-Goths ; 
the Franks and Saxons, all have poured forth from 
this country, for the conquest of other lands. The 
Germans of to-day express the longing of the 
North Germans for pleasanter climes in the phrase 
in which they demand "a place in the sun" (Gerard, 
p. 98). They claim the right to rule by might. The 
one to win by any means is the one to govern. 
Napoleon dreamt of a world-wide empire. Napoleon 
is the idol and the ideal of the Kaiser and his co- 
horts. The ideal and the idol of the rest of the 
world is the Man from Galilee. The iron chancel- 
lor, Bismarck, effected the consolidation of the sev- 
eral German States into that which is now known 
as the Imperial German Empire. The empire has 
no government at all in the sense that the people 
have any part in its affairs ; the part they play is 
so little that it cuts no figure, and it was intended 
that it should be so. The government is autocratic. 
People from other countries sometimes express sur- 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 19 

prise that the German government is able so easily 
to impose its will on the people, but the system is 
so complete and perfect that there is practically no 
chance for the individual or a number of individuals 
to effect any change, should they desire. The fact 
is, they do not know anything better and would 
not know anything better were it shown to them. 
This thing is self-perpetuating. One would find 
himself in danger of prison should he whisper re- 
form. The German of all governments is the least 
progressive. The system begins the teaching of 
the children at the time they are five years old 
that their government is the best in the world. 
That thing is thrown at them throughout life, and 
they go through life blinded by that lie, so they 
are not able to see, or to know when they see, a 
real government. The proverbial Scot's obstinacy 
passes into nothingness when compared with the 
German blindness. In an essential sense, German 
people are brought up in ignorance and slavery, but 
they are made wise as to the cultivation of real 
German purposes. German education is narrow 
and selfish. Speaking in general terms, their sys- 
tem of education does not aim at making the 
students acquainted with the facts of history and 
the philosophies of other people or ideals of other 



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governments ; it does not aim at tiie developing of 
character on a broad and comprehensive scale ; that 
is not its purpose. The real ideal underneath and 
running through the whole curriculum is to develop 
not the man, but the German. It is the ideal of a 
German that is sought to be produced. That is the 
highest type of man from a German viev^^point. 
The German in their notion is the superman, the 
man who should rule the world. That idea of 
theirs is the incarnation of their philosophy in all 
avenues of existence, social, civil, commercial, pro- 
fessional and religious. It is their all. Nothing is 
ever attempted unless the system favors it. Their 
ministers are officers of the system, and they say 
and do nothing that is not laudatory of the system. 
Some of these misnamed ministers of Jesus Christ 
considered the sinking of the Lusitania as an act 
of grace, and doubted the sanity of any man who 
thought differently. The reason why Germans 
have been able to manufacture so many things and 
send them over to this country and put them on our 
markets cheaper than we could produce the raw 
material, is not because they are more skilled 
mechanics or faster workmen, for they are neither, 
but because they are compelled to work so cheap 
that our labor can not compete with them. This 



Is the Kaisers God the Christians Devil? 21 

great country of ours can produce every commodity 
that that country can produce, and vastly more, but 
it can not produce it as cheap as we are paying a 
living wage. They work for the government, 
while in this country the government works for 
the people. When it does not, it is changed. 



IV. THE CONQUEST OE THE WORLD 

In Germany the people are taught that war is 
noble, is necessary ; that the greatest warrior is 
the greatest man. They have connected every en- 
terprise of theirs wdth that idea. Children are fed 
on it in their youth ; strong men are inspired by it 
to do deeds of valor and of cowardice alike ; old 
criminals are cheered with it as they get to the end 
bf their existence. Dr. Hillis, successor to H. Ward 
vBeecher, who has visited the war and is now lectur- 
ing through this country, has with him an aluminum 
badge taken from a German soldier, which he says 
is given as a reward for committing atrocities. On 
it are the words : 'The holder of this badge needs 
give no account on judgment day for what he did 
for fatherland." Under this blasphemous author- 
ity the soldier is sent out to assault and ravish and 



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murder, with all fiendish cruelty, with his consci- 
ence stupified by this demoniacal narcotic admin- 
istered by the Kaiser. Nothing more Adcious and 
blasphemous was ever devised by a human being." 
(The Herald and Presbyter). In books taught to 
little children, "Old Fritz" is described as sitting on 
a throne in heaven, with the statement that that 
place is governed by German generals. To be true 
to their country and to be safe for eternity they 
must secure the friendship of the generals. That 
is the rotten stuff on w^hich the people are fed. 
What they fondly call Kultur is the science of 
putting into themselves the quintessence of all the 
devilishness of which humanity is capable, and then 
to inflict those who will not bow to them, with all 
the horror and damnation possible for them. 

Surely, their Kultur has made them mad. They 
imagine all sorts of impossibilities as possibilities. 
Fairfax Naulty, inventor, scientist, traveler, just 
back from Europe, brings a dream so mad, so stun- 
ning and staggering that it really amuses rather 
than terrifies. Before the war was declared by 
Germany, the German people were considered as 
possessing a normal mental equilibrium. The 
revelations made by Naulty shows that the whole 
bunch should be tied and gagged and placed in an in- 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 23 

sane asylum for life, the sooner the better for them 
as well as for the rest of the world. In their mad 
dream for power they reasoned out the probable 
cost of winning a victory over all the world. In 
solving that problem, among other great problems, 
they came to the conclusion that they could sub- 
jugate the United States, appoint a German Gov- 
ernor General with dictatorial powers to rule over 
it ; then, in their mind, exact an indemnity 
from the United States for allowing them to whip 
us of two thousand billions of dollars, and the ab- 
solute Germanizing of the people during the years 
required to pay that enormous sum. The first 
year's interest at 4 per cent, would be eighty thous- 
and billions, nearly one third of the estimated 
wealth of the nation to-day. It would take forty- 
one thousand billions, which is the estimated 
yearly earnings of the country's population, to pay 
one-half interest on the huge German indemnity. 
Paying it would be an impossibility, and failure to 
pay would prove a splendid excuse for the brave 
Germans to close their mortgage, and declare the 
United States their own. But listen, there is not a 
man in all the world insane enough to believe in 
such a possibility, except a German. Were all the 
Allies, except the United States to fall before the 



24 Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 

Prussian arms and become a prey to their lust, the 
United States alone is more than a match for them. 
Nothing is more certain than that. And were they 
able to conquer us, they could never demand an in- 
demnity, for every American, men women and chil- 
dren, would die fighting. There would be no peo- 
ple here from whom to demand money. No Prus- 
sian \N\\\ ever bear the sceptre of authority over an 
American. It is forever v/ith the American, Lib- 
erty or Death ! 

Britain is marked out to pay an indemnity of one 
thousand five hundred billions ; France to pay one 
thousand billions, and Italy to pay five hundred bil- 
lions to the coffers of the Kaiser. The estimated 
wealth of the Allies are five hundred and fifty-seven 
thousand billions. The German hope is to break 
through to the North Sea, absorb Belgium, Holland, 
France, Denmark, Britain and the United States ; 
all of them would be expected to cough when the 
Kaiser sneezes in Berlin. With these countries in 
their possession, they would need pay no attention 
to other countries, for they would have become 
powerless, for Wilhelm would have become the 
Kaiser Generalissimo of the world. That is the 
dream. No such evidence of insanity has ever been 
presented by any people. Great dreams have been 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian s Dezdl? 25 

dreamt before, but nothing to compare with this in 
magnitude and daring, and they all have come to 
naught ; and so will this. There is nothing perma- 
nent on earth but God, his law and his righteous- 
ness. So long as God stands, the Kaiser can not 
take his place. Did the Germans count the chicks 
before they are hatched? 



V. A DEGENERATE PEOPLE 

Were we needing further proof of the degeneracy 
of the Prussianized German people, it is furnished 
in abundance in the duplicity and the dishonor of 
the German government in countries other than 
its own by its representatives or agents who were 
sent to those very countries to pry into govern- 
mental affairs so as to give the facts as found to 
German officials. Germans in Berlin had more ac- 
curate knowledge of many details in this country 
than our own government had. Our Government 
proceeded on the principle of faith in humanity ; 
the Hun government proceeded on faith in no one, 
and of taking advantage of everybody in every- 
thing, however dishonorable. Thousands of Ger- 
mans swore allegiance to the United States for no 



26 Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devilf 

other purpose than to put off suspicion of their dis- 
loyalty. In fact they were German spies and Ger- 
man sympathizers and not German representatives 
as that term is understood between nations. They 
secured the protection of the United States, the 
prestige of the United States, offices of honor and 
trust in the United States, and the emoluments. 
Their loyalty Avas a hollow pretense with a purpose. 
Time will permit no mention in detail of the many 
misdeeds committed by them. The so-called 
American citizens of this tribe did all they could 
to delay the American administration from 
declaring war against Germany as long 
as possible. The Kaiser had said that when he 
was through with the countries of Europe that he 
would visit his vengeance upon the people of the 
United States. The delay was in keeping with that 
idea. Had the people of the United States delayed 
going to war till the Kaiser had wrought out his 
destruction of Europe, it would have been forever 
too late for the United States to try to save itself. 
That v;as the meaning of the delay. 

Our mines of coal, silver, iron, gold, lead and 
every other mine is marked and mapped by Ger- 
mans. In their minds all these are theirs to be 
taken formal possession of at a later date. Our 



Is tlie Kaiser s God the Christiaits Devil? 27 

bridges, rivers, canals, lakes, etc., are more familiar 
to official Germany than they are to the majority 
of our own people. Our fields, forests, manufactur- 
ing plants are known to them in detail, and known 
to them as their own some sweet day. We simply 
hold them till they will get to them. Long before 
the war, they had designs upon us and all we have. 
After the war in Europe had begun and before 
declaration of war upon Germany had been made 
by President Wilson, the perfidy and treachery of 
German and Austrian accredited representatives 
developed to hideous proportions. It is a pity that 
they got away when they did and were not here 
when war was declared. It seems from his many 
magnificent speeches, that what held the President 
in restraint from declaring war sooner was the 
need of the American people for time sufficient for 
them to comprehend the awful situation, and to 
convert themselves from thoughts of thrift and 
good will to all men to the realization of the fact 
that a degenerated monster was seeking our very 
life, and then to see that we should act at once in 
all the power at our command. The President had 
discovered that not a word could be believed of 
what official Germany said, and that any trust put 
in them was sure of betrayal. These lower imps 



28 Is flic Kaisers God the Christ tail's Devil? 

of devils were not only undesirable, but positively 
dangerous. The more they could destroy of prop- 
erty and life, the more sure they were in their 
minds that they would sit at the right hand of "Old 
Fritz" in the kingdom in which Prussian Generals 
hold sway. For my part, I am willing that they 
shall go there, and the sooner they go the better. 



VI. TWO KINDS OF THEM 

We should bear in mind that all the Germans are 
not of the same ignorant and malicious disposition. 
Some of them are really very good people. In this 
country are Germans who were born in Germany 
and they all stand true to our principles and tradi- 
tions ; they have no love for Germany ; indeed, they 
hate it and all for which it stands ; they came here 
to enjoy the rights belonging to them as members 
of the human family ; they have proved their worth. 
We should be very careful in our statements lest 
we in any way should injure them or their loyal 
and faithful children. They are worthy of our 
highest esteem, and should get it. They are no 
more responsible for the disloyal actions of their 
kin than were the noble and brave soldiers of Gen- 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 29 

eral George Washington responsible for the treason 
of Benedict Arnold. 

I have been speaking of facts and factors in re- 
lation to the present war forced upon us by Ger- 
many, of ideas, and motives, of purposes and de- 
signs which animate the German actions. The 
spirit animating such people has no effect upon 
men who advance along lines of Christian progress. 
In their moral significance the ideals of Germany 
to-day are those found at the very dawn of history. 
It is the spirit of Cain who slew his brother simply 
because his brother possessed a grandeur of char- 
acter which he did not. The fact in its moral 
significance explains the situation with the Ger- 
mans to-day ; they are Cain's descendants. In 
habits and purposes they live the life of that early 
day with no connection with the ideals of the pres- 
ent century. To get rid of that evil spirit, God 
brought on the world the deluge. All its inhabi- 
tants were drowned save Noah and his family. The 
cunning of that evil spirit is seen in the fact that 
it concealed itself in the Ark or swam the flood, 
and continued its evil influence upon men of cer- 
tain calibre. Once again an attempt was made to 
drown that spirit in the sea when the swine were 
ordered there, but somehow again it worked its 



30 Is tlw Kaisers God the Christian's Devil? 

way to Prussia.' It has some times been said that 
there is some swine in the Prussians or some Prus- 
sians in the swine. At any rate the swine spirit 
is the dominant spirit throughout what is known 
as the Imperial German Government. By means 
of that Government that swine spirit seeks to per- 
meate and control all other governments upon the 
face of the earth. I speak in such language so as 
to make as emphatic as it is possible the fact that 
the German Government in fact or in purpose is 
not now, or never was, in line with Christian prog- 
ress. Geimany's great years were those long be- 
fore she became the Imperial German Government ; 
the years of Luther and the Reformation. Those 
were the years of great men and great achieve- 
ments ; those were the years of great musicians in 
Germany. In those years Germany moved the 
world with principles of truth and righteousness ; 
she moves the world now with principles of death 
and damnation. She is great nevermore. The 
masses of people then enjoyed intellectual and 
moral liberty and some degree of political liberty. 
The consolidation of the several German States 
into the Imperial German Government put an end 
to all progress. Since the consolidation, no true 
great music has been produced by Germany. As 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 31 

the years are passing the music of Germany shows 
more and more the spirit animating the people ; it 
is coarse and martial. Her poetry has much of the 
same declining aspect, while her philosophy is in- 
human and her theology un-Christian. In fact she 
could not bring her inner purposes to chime with 
any doctrine of the Bible. As she could not make 
them to serve her purpose the thing to do was to 
do away with them, and this she has done. In the 
midst of the marvelous progress of this age, Ger- 
many has stood up against it all. Since she could 
not do away with it she has attempted to do away 
with humanity. That is one meaning of this war. 



VII. GERMAN THOUGHT TO-DAY 

Few quotations from recent addresses by Ger- 
man ministers will show the thought of the German 
mind of to-day which I select from "Gems of Ger- 
man Thought," compiled by William Archer and 
published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New 
York. It is evident that what the German call 
Kultur is their God. What they say in their ad- 
dresses shows the quality and nature of that God. 
Listen : 



32 Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 

"One thing, I think, is clear, God must stand 
on our side," (Pastor Franke). "The good God 
will help us, for he is German," (R. Engle- 
brecht). "On us Germans the eye of God, we 
take it, must be specially resting in this war. 
We must be his ultimate purpose," (Pastor W. 
Lehemann). "The German soul is the world's 
soul. God and Germany belong to one another," 
(Pastor W. Lehemann). "The principles which 
the Kaiser impresses upon his soldiers live in 
his own soul ; each must do his duty, so when 
he shall one day answer the heavenly call, he 
may stand forth with a good conscience be- 
fore his God and his Old Kaiser," (Pastor H. 
Henning). "We execute God's Almighty will, 
even if the world thereby should fall to ruin,'' 
(F. Philipi). "The question of alliance in war 
is always an open one, for circumstances may 
at any moment arise such as Bismarck referred 
to when he said : 'No power is bound (or, we 
will add, entitled) to sacrifice important inter- 
ests of its own on the altar of faithfulness to 
an alliance,'" (Graf. E. Ventlow). "It was a 
most serious mistake in German policy that a 
final settling of accounts with France was not 
effected at a time when the state of interna- 



Is th\e Kaiser's God the Christian s Devil? 33 

tional affairs was favorable and success might 
confidently have l)een expected. . . This 
policy somewhat resembles the supineness for 
which England has herself to blame, when she 
refused her assistance to the Southern States 
in the American War of Secession," (Bern- 
hardi). 

"Perhaps the greatest dang-er for us Ger- 
mans — greatest because it does not threaten us 
from without, but within our own hearts — is 
our magnanimity. Oh ! there is something glori- 
ous about this virtue, and we Germans may 
be quite particularly proud of possessing it. 
. . . But woe to the people which does not 
stand as one man behind the statesman who, by 
dint of hard struggles wnth his own soul, has 
fought his way to the only true standpoint — 
namely, that in international relations mag- 
nanimity is wholly out of place, and that here 
the voice of expedience can alone be heard," 
(Ein Deutscher). "For the will of the State, 
no other principle exists but that of expediency, 
which is at the same time selfishness ; not, how- 
ever, the short-sighted selfishness commended 
by Machiavelli, but far seeing, shrewdly-cal- 
culating selfishness," (Ein Deutscher). "Far 



34 ^^^ i^ic Kaisers God the Christian s Devil? 

seeing selfishness does not exclude the en- 
deavor to win the confidence of other nations, 
which can be won only by honesty. But this 
honesty, at any rate on vital questions, ought 
on no account to be carried to the pitch of in- 
expedient Quixotism," (Ein Deutscher). 
"Might is the supreme right, and the dispute as 
to what is right is decided by the arbitrament 
of war. War gives a biologically just decision," 
(Bernhardi). "It is a base calumny to 
attribute to us the brutal principle that might is 
equivalent to right," (Meinecke). "The cli- 
mate, the want of wine, and lack of beautiful 
scenery, have all been obstacles in the way of 
English Kultur," (Treitschke). 

"England's strength resides in arrogant self- 
esteem ; Germany's greatness in the modest ap- 
preciation of everything foreign. England is 
self-seeking; Germany is just, even to self- 
depreciation," (Th. Fontane). "Our war ex- 
penses will be paid by the vanquished. The 
black-white-red flag shall float over all seas," 
(Gierke). "England thinks the hour has come 
for our annihilation. Why does she want to 
annihilate us? Because she cannot forgive our 
strength, our industry, our prosperity! There 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 35 

is no other explanation," (Prof. Harnack). 
"The much-lauded missionary spirit was only 
a business enterprise, by means of which John 
Bull filled his purse," (Pastor D. Vorwerk). 
"The President of the United States, Professor 
Wilson . . . allows American munition 
works to supply our enemies with unlimited 
quantities of war material, favors the infamous 
design of England to starve out Germany, and 
rises in his 'peace' speeches to a height of 
political and religious hypocrisy in no way in- 
ferior to that attained by the English 'million- 
murderer' Grey," (Prof. E. Haeckel). "If Bel- 
gium takes part in the war, it must be wiped 
off the map of Europe," (R. Theuden). 

The above taken at random indicate very clearly 
the trend of the German mind. I do not feel a 
single breath of the spirit of the religion of the 
Christ, or a single note of humanity, in all that is 
said. It shows culpable ignorance on the part oi 
the people who permitted themselves to say such 
things, or the consciousness of dense ignorance 
among the people, if they thought such utterances 
would be believed. Official Germany, and it is to 
be feared, nine tenth of the population of Germany 



36 Is the Kaisers God the Christian s Devil? 

are so ignorant in moral contemplation and so 
egotistic as to be self-proof against any progress 
of mind or of morals. 



VIII. WHAT IS CIVILIZATION? 

The belching forth of the cannon, the bursting of 
the shrapnel, the tearing down of churches, the 
ruin of cathedrals, the slaughter of men, the shame 
of women and virgins have opened the eyes of the 
w^orld as they have never been opened before to 
the real conditions of things, and the need in the 
face of the facts. To arouse a whole world out of 
its sleep and apathy is no small task. The extreme 
cruelty, insanity, devilishness of the Kaiser and his 
cohorts have awakened the world to its danger and 
opportunity. The world now sees as it has never 
seen before the hellishness of incarnate sin and the 
beauty and value of the religion of Jesus Christ. 
The value of one man to another man as a member 
of the social com.pact is measured by his proximity 
in character to the Man of Galilee. The protection 
given by a government to its citizens is estimated 
by affiliations with the principles annunciated in the 
Sermon on the Mount. A government established 



Is tlie Kaiser's God the Clwistians Devil 37 

on anything but love and law is anarchy. Anarchy 
may be as prominent a factor in the life of rulers 
as in the disposition of the illiterate. The Prus- 
sian government is anarchy in its true philosophic 
sense, notwithstanding its claim for law — it is law 
for the governed but license for the governors. A 
just law or policy deals with all parties alike. The 
government of Germany protects the rulers and 
punishes the people. The four nations at war with 
the United States and its Allies are hot beds of 
anarchy. More trouble have come up from them in 
past years than from all countries combined. The 
Lord Jesus Christ stands up as a shining light to 
show the difference between Kaiserism and 
righteousness. Christ has never been so loved as he 
is to-day, and Kaiser Kultur has never been so 
hated. The war by millions of cannon balls has 
pounded the truth of God home to the hearts of 
men, and they will not forget it. The world is al- 
ready a new world. Its mountain peaks are higher, 
and we see farther; its air is purer, and we breathe 
easier; its boundaries have contracted and we live 
in closer touch. This is only a beginning of clear- 
ing Kaiserism from the path of righteousness. The 
war is no longer a problem to be solved. It is solved 
in the minds of the people. It has to be fought to 



38 Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 

a finish of Kaiserism in all its plans and purposes, 
and we are not so anxious about the time when it 
will come to an end as we are that, when it does 
come to an end, it will end Kaiserism. The biggest 
part of the world has already decided that Kaiser- 
ism has to go. That is the great and grand idea. 
There is no room in this world of sane people for 
the Christ and the Kaiser. The world is already 
in the process of reconstruction. "Weeping is for 
a night ; joy comes in the morning." The light of 
that morning is climbing up in the heavens, and we 
see a full day of better things. 

IX. TWO GREATEST FACTS 

In the firmament of History two facts stand out, 
like the sun in the day and the moon in the night, 
outshining every other fact, and the two are : the 
Incarnation at Bethlehem and the Landing of the 
Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock. Both places were in- 
significant, one absolutely unknown, but to-day are 
familiar everywhere where thinking men exist. 
The fact of Bethlehem means that there is Salva- 
tion for all who will accept it, and the fact of Ply- 
mouth Rock means that political freedom is the 
inalienable right of all men. When the Incarnation 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 39 

became a fact the military spirit was calm, and 
peace reigned throughout the world. When the 
Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock cruel persecu- 
tion ruled in England, persecution of all those who 
dared to worship God in form other than prescribed 
by the sovereign, a spirit akin to that of the Prus- 
sians of to-day, and a relic of the old Prussian spirit 
remaining at that time in English governmental 
authority. It was godless, cruel, tremendous in 
power, but it was overcome. The two events 
referred to are correlatives in the divine intention, 
the offsprings of the same Holy Spirit, and came 
with blessings to all mankind. The present at- 
tempts of the Kaiser and his satanic cohorts are 
in direct contradiction to the Incarnation, a refu- 
tation of the truth of the Gospel, a challenge to 
Almighty God! The fact of Plymouth is the con- 
sequent of the fact of Bethlehem. England was 
then in the clutches of insane power, and men suf- 
fered untold agony and death as a willing sacrifice. 
Out of that sacrifice and the divine intention came 
deliverance to the people and a rich inheritance to 
their follow^ers. God sifted the threshing floor of 
Europe for the purest wheat and brought that 
wheat over in the Mayflower for planting in the 
new soil; it was planted, and out of it has grown 



40 Is the Kaiser s God the Christian's Devil? 

this mightiest of all nations which to-da}^ stands in 
the world as the glory of the centviries and stands 
for more to the world than does any other nation, 
and is looked to by other nations as their hope and 
their salvation. And why so? Because it is what 
it is, a nation of the people, for the people and by 
the people. It was born out of religious faith and 
nurtured on the breath of prayer. While it is not 
without many serious faults, its real spirit and life 
are true to fundamental principles. It constantly 
aims at perfection. When she will have been able 
to shake from her feet all obstacles to true progress, 
she will not be long before doing the same service 
for other nations. Any man who understands in 
any degree the Bible and loves righteousness is 
proud of the fact that he is an American. It is faith 
in God that makes the American nation great. The 
God of the Kaiser is other than the God of the 
Christ. The quotations already given do not give 
even a hint of the God of love and good wall, but 
a monster, a monster going about seeking whom 
he may devour, (i. Pet. 5:8). The word "devil" 
seems too weak to describe it, but that word has 
come to mean very much more in these latter days 
than it ever has before. The word "devil" hence- 
forth will include the thought conveyed by the 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 41 

word so fondly used by the Germans — Kultur. That 
is the god of the heathen HohenzoUerns, and that 
heathen god is the factor in this war. The God of 
the Christian has never lost a battle. To men his 
movements some times seem slow, but with him a 
day is as a thousand years and a thousand years 
as one day. His victory is sure. 



X. OPPOSING PRINCIPLES 

Not only is Germany to be crushed, but every- 
thing for which Germany stands is to be crushed. 
Earnest and able scientists have tried to discover 
the source of German misbehavior. Why does Ger- 
many act as she does ? That question has been in- 
vestigated from every angle. To find the cause 
that made Germany more heathenish than the 
universally admitted heathen Turk has had much 
attention of late, and the conclusion is clear and 
definite. After my graduation from Marietta Col- 
lege, I had some notion of going to Germany for 
more extended study. I was urged to do so by a 
German acquaintance who was a pastor of a Ger- 
man church. He made me feel that something was 
lacking that could be supplied only in Germany. 



42 Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 

After some correspondence with the authorities of 
German universities, I failed to see that I, or any 
other man, could get anything superior in Germany 
to what I could get here, only the name of having 
been there, and of seeing the country. My ardor 
cooled. I have noticed since that German higher edu- 
cation was a misnomer, not ''higher," but "other," 
an idea or a projection of thought which made the 
student believe that Germany in all that she was, 
or is, is superior to any other country or people on 
the face of the globe. Some students have returned 
from there without having been tainted with the 
leaven of German Kultur to a degree that made 
their ability to see and to understand truth in its 
intrinsic nature less ; the majority of them, and all 
those of lesser mental capacity have returned here, 
to England, and to other countries saturated with 
what is known as German Higher Criticism, and 
that higher criticism is of a very low grade. It 
undertook to make mince meat of the Bible, tear it 
to shreds and to eliminate the divine from the Lord 
Jesus Christ. It is seen plainly enough by this 
time that Germany could not maintain the thought 
of the divine Christ and at the same time maintain 
her purpose by means of her Kultur, the conquest 
of the world by any means. Observing these facts 



Is tJte Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 43 

I naturally became opposed to sending young 
Americans to Germany for education in any line. 
After very little investigation I came to the con- 
clusion, v^hich remains with me to-day, that the 
United States furnish the best education on the 
face of the earth and at less cost than Germany 
furnishes hers. It is not certain as yet that that 
word of mystery, Kultur, is fully understood ; there 
may lurk a meaning in it for Germans which other 
people can not as yet comprehend, enough has been 
discovered to prove that that very thing is at the 
bottom of every system of philosophy, theology, 
science or behavior of Germany. Their ideal is 
crooked ; hence they are crooked. No people can 
be better or other than their ideals of what they 
ought to be. In German schools from first grade 
to the university post graduate course, Kultur is al- 
ways held before the students as the chief object 
of pursuit. In Christian countries righteousness 
before God in thought and conduct is maintained as 
the chief object of pursuit; in Germany, Kultur. 
From the schools in Germany has risen like an eagle 
in the sky, the idea of German supremacy — the 
superman — and that superman is a German. For 
that reason according to German kultur-thinking, 
the German people ought to rule the world, and 



44 ^^ the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 

will rule it. So as to keep the Prussian people al- 
ways aloft in their philosophy of teaching, it is 
maintained that the State is higher and sublimer 
than the individual, and that the individual exists 
for the State. That is a flat denial of the teach- 
ings of Jesus Christ for he maintained that the 
State, the world and all there is in it were made, for 
man, that the individual is greater and grander 
than the State or any number of States. That is the 
supreme idea in the Constitution of the United 
States. The German Imperial idea is Autocracy, 
while the American imperial idea is Universal 
Democracy. That does not mean party politics ; it 
does not mean politics at all. but the principles at 
the bottom of all political endeavor. Democrat is 
of Greek origin and means exactly what is meant 
by the Latin word. Republican. If there is any dif- 
ference in the exact meaning of the two words m 
relation to our Government, Republican is more 
democratic than the word Democrat itself. Repub- 
lican means affairs of the public, while Democrat 
means the power of the "demos." "Demos" means 
people, and "Dom" means boss. But I am not writing 
about American politics, but about principles of 
government, and the Republican-Democracy of the 
United States to-day appeals to the intelligent peo- 



Is the Kaiser s God the Christian's Devil? 45 

pie of the world with a power more emphatic than 
ever before, for in the American Government are 
found the principles of the Gospel of the Christ. 
In this war the two ideas are in conflict. 



XL THE SALOON 

The saloon is a German product. We are inform- 
ed that the beer-drinking has made Germans brutal, 
and the institution of the saloon in great part must 
be held responsible for the conduct of Germans in 
and before the war. The saloon is a German insti- 
tution in our midst sending out damnation and death 
every day. Whatever influence for bad beer-drink- 
ing or liquor-drinking may have on the Germans, it 
has also to the extent of its use the same influence 
on any other people. The effects are commensurate 
with its use. The people who have used it longer, 
or use it the more, are less in their physical power 
and weaker in their moral power. Beer is con- 
sidered a food in Germany, and is indulged in by all,, 
men, women and children. And I am sorry that I 
am not able to say, not so in Britain ; but I can not. 
The bane of Britain is beer. The drinking habit is 
alarming: and destructive in Great Britain. The 



46 Is the Kaisers God the Christian's Devil? 

woeful consequences of that habit is seen in all the 
social and mental habits of the people now while 
the enemy is upon them, and they are called upon to 
do their utmost to save themselves. It has too 
strong an influence upon the political thoughts of 
our politicians, else it would have been banished 
long ago, but it seems that since the beginning of 
the war a change of thought has taken place and 
that the Congress of the United States would banish, 
it at least during the war, and since our magnificent 
President does not exercise the powers given him 
in this respect, he is less of a mortal hero than his 
other great deeds would indicate him to be. He is 
surely a great man, but somehow so far, he is not 
great enough to say to the liquor interests "So far 
thou shalt go, and no farther." 

"Every person is to-day in this country a 
loyal citizen or an enemy ; every occupation 
useful or non-useful in reference to winning 
the war. The government lays its hands on 
every man from twenty-one to thirty-one years 
of age and tells him that he must serve posi- 
tively in winning the war. It lays its hands on 
enough dollars to carry on the war and says 
that they must be furnished either for bonds 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 47 

or in way of taxes, for the war must be won 
and money and men are needed for winning it. 
Not one dust of material needed, and not one 
life needed, for winning the war must be with- 
held or wasted. . . . 

"Liquor is made from valuable food. When 
made it is no longer valuable, but the greatest 
enemy of efficiency and the greatest hindrance 
to winning the war. Last year there were used 
in the United States in making distilled liquor 
thirty-two million bushels of corn, three million 
bushels of rye, five million bushels of barley and 
fifty-two million gallons of molasses. For mak- 
ing fermented liquor in the United States last 
year there were used thirteen million bushels of 
corn, fifty-four million bushels of malt, and 
seventeen million bushels of barley. Supposing 
that one-sixth of this grain is needed to make 
alcohol for munitions and industrial purposes, 
and the rest used for food, there would be 
enough food saved to feed seven million men 
for a year. The amount of foodstuffs used in 
making beer would furnish eleven millions of 
loaves of bread a day, for every day in the year. 
The ofround on which this wasted food grows 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil f 

would raise enough wheat to feed our army, 
and the brewers and distillers and saloon- 
keepers and bartenders could do the work, well 
paid for, in raising it, instead of serving the 
Kaiser. 

"Shall we permit this wicked waste to go on ? 
We make an exhibition of sinful and selfish 
folly to the world in permitting it. God 
Almighty will rebuke us for it if we do. Our 
Congress and President should order at once 
War Prohibition." — "The Herald and Pres- 
byter," June 5, 1918. 

"The war is largely responsible for this pleas- 
ing development. In the first place, it has made 
America stop and think more seriously than its 
custom was. In the second place, it has affect- 
ed material conditions so profoundly that the 
manufacturers of alcoholic drinks are greatly 
handicapped. It is not patriotic to use for 
something else machinery and materials needed 
for war purposes. Thus the moral and material 
factors have been working together to the one 
end."— "St. Nicholas," for June, 1918. 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 49 

The saloon, and drinking places in all countries, 
have been, and are rendezvous whereto have gath- 
ered, and do gather, conspirators, assassins, mur- 
derers. Saloons are hatcheries of sedition, of mur- 
der, of arson, the downfall of women and girls, the 
debauchery of boys, the shame of men, and other 
sins. It was to the saloon that the Hun con- 
spirators resorted to hatch their venomous eggs 
which brought fortli crocodiles, scorpions, vipers, 
death. 

As everything of Germany is a part of or relating 
to the Government, the drinking of the people is a 
part of the government. The more is consumed the 
more the revenue to the government. It is not so 
in Britain, and it is not so in the United States. It 
returns revenue to the government, but that is only 
the claim of the liquor business. It comes far short 
of paying expenses, and the people are tired of 
paying for the damage it does, but bad as it is, the 
drinking habit in the United States is far less 
flourishing than it is in Europe, and far less gen- 
eral among the American people. That accounts 
for the splendid manhood, the physical strength. 
the mental acumen, the valor, alertness and endur- 
ance of our soldiers abroad: they are a revelation 
to Europe, and the winners of the war. Just be- 



50 Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 

yond we see the saloon and all its evil consequences 
put out of the United States and the people as- 
sembling all their physical and moral forces to the 
building up of the Kingdom of Righteousness, and 
the blessed reign of the Christ. 



XII. THE LARGER LIFE 
Jesus Christ came into the world that men might 
have life and have it more abundantly. Good men 
have told us many times that ''more abundant" 
means a greater degree of spirituality. That is 
surely a part of its meaning, but not all of it. Why 
does it not comprehend life in all its majestic sway, 
material, social, political, spiritual ? In reading over 
the beautiful sayings of the Christ, I am so inspired 
by their loftiness that I fear to give them too 
small and a too narrow a meaning. I like to think 
of them in a large way. The Christ came to the 
world to make life vastly more abundant than any 
animal life can be or any intellectual consciousness 
can be. The life that he came to give is as vast as 
he is. He makes life more abundant all the way 
from the threshold to the last step, in the play 
house in the morning of existence, in the school 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christian's Demi? 51 

days as men and women become acquainted with 
ideas and problems, at noon when power is at its 
height, and at evening at the sinking of the sun — 
life more abundant, unless the individual has re- 
jected that life. Wherever Christ is, life more 
abundant is. At one time I heard the Rev. Principal 
T. C. Edwards of the University College of Wales 
saying to a tremendous congregation, and he 
thrilled them, that the sins of his neighbors were 
hinderances to him to live as good a life as he want- 
ed to live. My sins and your sins serve other peo- 
ple in the same way ; they stand against their prog- 
ress. The sins of one nation are detrimental to 
other nations. The sins of Prussianism have been 
a menace to other nations for many centuries, but 
in our day it has broken out in fury. Prussianism 
has turned physical property to wrong use, educa- 
tional advantages to mislead the people. The moral 
forces Prussianism ought to have used for the 
building up of the people it has used to destroy 
them. Since Germany succeeded in breaking down 
or to make null the influence of Luther, she has 
been busy in substituting something nearer her 
ideals. In place of Christ she has Kultur ; in place 
of Luther she has the Kaiser. I would give more 
to-day for an old worn out hat of Luther than the 



52 Is the Kaiser's God the Christians Devil? 

crown of the Kaiser. Luther goes up, the Kaiser 
goes down. German ideas and ideals do not point 
to self-denial, to sacrifice for others, and to love 
but to self-seeking, to greed, conquest, power over 
all others. The insidiousness of her philosophy has 
silently and clandestinely stolen into the life of 
other people, into our life. German thought as 
well as German goods were accepted on the sup- 
position that they were superior. Our minds are 
now in part opened to the fact that they are not 
superior, but in fact alarmingly inferior. It was 
the Avage we paid our men that enabled Germany 
to send cheaply made goods over to this country 
and to put the finished product on the market 
cheaper than our manufacturers could procure raw 
material. Germany profited from the sweat and 
the hunger of her own people. The professors in 
the highest universities in Germany do not get 
much better pay than the average teacher in the 
grades in this country. You do not get high grade 
goods or sublime thoughts from poorly paid 
mechanics or thinkers. A thought which is a 
thought is worth much to the world, a thought 
capable to move, to strengthen, and to inspire 
others, but what Germany has mostly given us is 
fragments of thought, parts of ideas, one side of a 



Is the Kaiser's God the Christians Devil? 53 

conception, a view which might lead men to think 
much of Kultiir and the Kaiser, regardless of the 
truth at the bottom. Since they have installed 
Kultur as their god they have been busy in trying 
to obliterate every trace of Jesus Christ. Few of 
them were sufficiently bold to attempt to deny the 
historicity of Jesus Christ, that such a one ever 
lived, while all their great philosophers from Kant 
to Hindenburg have been denying the divine in the 
Christ. Christ had to go if Kultur was to live. 
Some consequences of such teaching in this coun- 
try are seen in the "continental Sabbath," which is 
a pleasure day or a day given to immorality. That 
thing has come over here to the land of many 
churches, of great preachers, greatest scholars and 
world-w^ide evangelists, of scientists, theologians, 
philosophers and philanthropists of universal recog- 
nition and admiration. All of us in a less or a larger 
degree have been influenced by German Kultur. 
Could the Kultur ideas and ideals get the nation and 
the nations away from the idea and the ideals of 
the Christ, of the Sabbath, of Religion, they could 
in a little while persuade all that they are supermen, 
and as they are supermen they by right should rule 
over all the world. The war, like lightning and 
thunder in the sky, has cleared the intellectual 



54 ^^ t^^ Kaiser's God the Christian's Devil? 

world of the cloud hanging over it, and it is now 
able to see the tender and benign relations which 
should exist between one member of humanity and 
the other according to the prayer of the Lord Jesus 
Christ, and to feel the crushing force upon men of 
Kultur of the Kaiser. The principles of the Gospel 
of the Christ and the principles of the Kultur of the 
Kaiser are in opposition, are in a war for the mas- 
tery. "And he will be a wild man ; his hands will 
be against every man, and every man's hands 
against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of 
all his brethren," (Gen. 16:12). "He that is not 
with me is against me ; and he that gathereth not 
with me scattereth abroad. . . . All manner of 
sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men : but 
the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be 
forgiven . . . neither in this world nor in the 
world to come," (Jesus Christ). "And now abideth 
faith, hope, love, these three ; but the greatest of 
these is love," (Paul). 



